[C. Edmund Wright]

how did the union vote go?

[NorthMountain]

Mingo, Logan, Boone, and Kanawha counties are the heart of "coal country" and therefore the heart of union country. As you can see, by 2012 they (like the rest of WV) had turned solidly red.

I know it's fashionable to beat on union workers as hopeless rubes, totally dependent on Big Daddy Gummint ... particularly fashionable to do so among the supposedly conservative chattering class. Even professional chatterers, though, should occasionally check their prejudices against facts.

[NorthMountain]

FYI ...

2015-16 WV House of Delegates:

2015-16 WV Senate:

Some areas are clearly still a work in progress. The WV Republican Party has organizational ineptitude issues. At the local politics level, the WV Demonicrat Party is not nearly as evil as the national D-Rat Party. The execrable Joe Manchin, for example, twice received enthusiastic, slobbering endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the National Right to Life Committee. I condemned those endorsements at the time. I was right. They were wrong. I hope they have learned.